That is a nice little tip Lilianne. It total works. I will definitely commit this tip to my own personal Kbase for Struts.
Thanks Jim -----Original Message----- From: Lilianne E. Blaze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 12:34 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Using a struts action as a welcome-file Hello, Assuming you want to have /index.ext as a welcome file, and have .ext mapped to Struts, just add index.ext to welcome-file as you have done, then create an empty file index.ext in every folder you want it to work. Greetings, Lilianne E. Blaze Jim Kennedy wrote: >I'm trying to use a struts action as my only welcome-file in web.xml. >I assumed this to be straightforward, but apparently it does not seem to be. >Index.jsp works and index.html works, but not something like >(index.xyz) where xyz is mapped to ActionServlet. > >Here's a snippet of web.xml: > > <servlet> > <servlet-name>ActionServlet</servlet-name> > <display-name>ActionServlet</display-name> > <description>Main Struts Servlet</description> > ><servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class> > <init-param> > <param-name>config</param-name> > ><param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value> > </init-param> > <load-on-startup>15</load-on-startup> > </servlet> > <servlet> > <servlet-name>LoginServlet</servlet-name> > <display-name>LoginServlet</display-name> > <servlet-class>com.je.servlet.LoginServlet</servlet-class> > </servlet> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>ActionServlet</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>*.rwx</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>ActionServlet</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/logout</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>ActionServlet</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>*.exe</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > <session-config> > <session-timeout>5</session-timeout> > </session-config> > <welcome-file-list> > <welcome-file>home.rwx</welcome-file> > <!-- > <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file> > <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> > --> > </welcome-file-list> > >When I try to access http://www.mydomain.com/ I get a directory list >which is what you will get if the default servlet can not find any welcome files. > >I've been running struts in production for a long time and have every >aspect of struts working properly. That is except for this one. I >have a feeling it is an initialization problem of some kind. Also I >would imagine others have asked this very same question. Difficult to >search google because anything with "welcome-file" brings back volumes in info. > >Thanks > >Jim Kennedy > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
